1. The Yankees have already been ordered to make the first renovation to their new stadium.

The Yankees had a television installed just around the turn from their dugout to the clubhouse. It technically was not in the boundaries of the dugout, but it was more part of the dugout then either the runway or the clubhouse area.

Major league rules prohibit the presence of either electronic equipment or televisions in the dugout because they do not want teams to gain unfair advantages via either signals from outside the dugout or from information they can glean off of the TV. For example, via TV, hitters could sit and watch pitching location before their at-bats or coaches could try to decipher catcher’s signals. Now the truth is that most teams now have someone doing all of this in real time in a clubhouse area and relaying what pertinent information they can by simply having someone send the messages verbally. Many hitters retreat to the clubhouse to watch at-bats or pitch sequences on video.

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